Alex Smith
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

“Ah. We’re going for semantics now?”

No. Look up semantics.

“You just told me that Apple took users from Google by making it the default.”

And learn to read while you’re at it.

I said that “They [Apple] were even happy to sell Google default search site status”. That has nothing to do with taking users.

I said that Apple had improved maps and it the most commonly used maps app on the iPhone. But that doesn’t mean they are competing. Apple are happy for both Google maps on iPhone and Apple maps on iPhone to improve, and for the users to be more happy with iPhones as a result. It does not mean that they are competing for users.

“Stealing users from each other is the very definition of competition.”

No. Stealing customers / revenue / profit from each other is the very definition of competition.

Customers using Google’s free app, rather than Apple’s free app, on an iPhone does not impact Apple’s number of customers, revenue, or profit.

“I don’t even want to know how you have redefined competition if this doesn’t count.”

Perhaps you need to stand back. Read more carefully, and think.

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